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When the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, and 90th Perthshire Light Infantry amalgamated to form The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway were integrated into the structure of the regiment.
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry. [2] After the amalgamation, the 1st Battalion preferred to be known as "The Cameronians" while the 2nd preferred to be known as "The Scottish Rifles".
The 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers was a Scottish Volunteer unit of the British Army.Originally raised in Glasgow as part of the Highland Light Infantry from 1859, it later became a battalion of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
He passed out of Sandhurst in 1886, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 25 August. [2] [3] He remained with his regiment for thirteen years, with a promotion to captain in October 1896, [4] until he was appointed as the adjutant to a volunteer battalion in India in February 1899. [2]
The two were formally amalgamated in 1882, to form the Scotch Rifles Cameronians. This somewhat ungainly name was quickly altered to the Cameronians (Scotch Rifles), and then to the more modern form of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). The Cameronians, as the more senior regiment, formed the 1st Battalion; the 90th, as the junior, formed the 2nd.
No. 7504 Private Henry May, 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). For most conspicuous bravery near La Boutillerie, on 22nd October, 1914, in voluntarily endeavouring to rescue, under very heavy fire, a wounded man, who was killed before he could save him, and subsequently, on the same day, in carrying a wounded Officer a distance ...
The Scottish Rifles Brigade was originally a Volunteer Infantry Brigade formed in 1902 when the former Glasgow Brigade of the Volunteer Force was split up. The four Volunteer Battalions of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) constituted one brigade, while the four Volunteer Battalions of the Highland Light Infantry formed the other (the Highland Light Infantry Brigade, later the 157th (Highland ...
6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 7th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (left 13 March 1945) 156th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (formed 5 December 1939, disbanded 7 January 1941) 1st Battalion, Glasgow Highlanders (from 14 March 1945) 157th Infantry Brigade [28] 1st Battalion, Glasgow Highlanders (left 12 March 1945)